🇬🇧🇩🇪 Pot, meet kettle: UK, Germany inflate Russian ‘space threat’, ignore US ally’s blatant buildup

The UK and Germany have launched a forum and media tour to accuse Russia and China of using satellites to threaten the alliance’s orbiting platforms, CNN reports.

💬 “Russia and China have rapidly expanded their space warfare capabilities in recent years: they can jam, blind, manipulate or kinetically destroy satellites,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said at an industry event in September.

🗣 “They’ve got payloads on board that can see our satellites and are trying to collect information from them,” UK Space Command chief Paul Tedman told the BBC in October.

🔶 NATO chief Rutte has gone so far as to accuse Russia of considering deploying nukes in space for anti-satellite operations — even though, in early 2024, President Putin explicitly stated that Russia has “always been categorically against” the deployment of nuclear weapons in space.

🔶 Rutte warned that such an action would violate the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. His evidence? Literally nothing.

Meanwhile…

🇺🇸 The US has not only created an explicitly space-oriented military command (Space Force), but classified the heavens as “the next warfighting domain.”

💲 Space Force has a $40B budget (about 1/5 of Russia’s TOTAL defense spending), ~15k personnel, including 9.4K ‘Space Force Guardians’, and a slew of projects threatening to turn the final frontier into a warzone, including:

🟠 Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) – a new generation of military satellites

🟠 Counter Communications System (CCS) – a ground-based electronic warfare platform

🟠 ‘space domain awareness’ projects, including the Space Surveillance Network (SSN) and Silentbarker satellite programs

🟠 cyberwarfare schemes for hacking satellites, laser and co-orbital anti-satellite weapons projects

🟠 the new Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) system of nuclear command, control and communications

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia and China have been promoting an international treaty to prevent a space-based arms buildup since 2008, but the US and its NATO allies have persistently ignored it, choosing to hype up the Russian-Chinese ‘threat’ while cashing in on growing space warfare budgets.

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